A new £3.65 million state-of-the-art community health clinic for Chryston has moved a step closer after construction work began this week.
As a result, the new community health clinic could provide a larger, more modern facility than the existing Muirhead Clinic for almost 27,000 local people.
As part of our commitment to provide all community services in people’s local areas through integrated health and social care teams, it is expected the centre will host services including:
- midwifery
- health visitor pre/post-natal
- rehabilitation team
- treatment room services
- breastfeeding support
- mental health learning disability
- community mental health teams
Following similar successful joint projects with North Lanarkshire Council, the new facility is part of a wider development including the council’s planned Chryston Primary School.
The current Muirhead Clinic only allows a small range of community health services to be provided locally due to its size and lack of any dedicated car parking. It will continue to operate its existing services throughout the construction of the new clinic.
Due to the clinic’s limited capacity, the health board has, until now, been unable to fully repatriate the services from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. This means local residents have to travel significant distances across Glasgow to access services, with teams and clinics based in areas including Shettleston, Kirkintilloch, Easterhouse and Bridgeton.
Maggs Thomson, Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire’s head of health, said: “The sod-cutting and beginning of building work is a hugely significant step towards delivering a brand new state-of-the-art health clinic for the people of Chryston and surrounding areas.
“This new community health clinic is being purpose built to provide clinical services close to where people live and ensure local people will no longer need to travel across Glasgow to access a number of services.
“There has been extensive engagement with all stakeholders including several wide-ranging sessions with NHS, council and health and social care staff. We also listened to the views of teachers, support staff and pupils at Chryston Primary School. This was strengthened with further feedback from the parent council and elected members, before concluding in an online public event to inform local residents of the final design.
“Services will continue to run at the existing clinic during construction, and then transfer to the new facility once completed, meaning there should be minimal disruption for patients and service users.”
Interviews with the partners involved in the project and images of how the new facility will look have been captured on video. Watch the video at: https://vimeo.com/684019414/0bc5908208
